Devils (or Demons if you prefer)

Where did Satan Come From?  How did the Devil Become the Devil?

We have a few passages of scripture that tell us of Satan's fall, but we don't have a time frame in which this occurred other than to realize that his fall happened sometime before Adam and Eve were placed into the Garden of Eden.

We CAN safely say that since the beginning of mankind, Satan has been around and had already fallen.  It is also safe to say that since Satan had already fallen at this point, then his angels had also fallen since it is recorded that he took 1/3 of the angels with him at his fall. 

We need to read a few more scriptures to determine what caused Satan to fall and to determine what his motives might be toward both God and man.

In the following passages, I have heard and read of many scholars who claim these prophecies pertained to some King of times past, but not to Satan. This is an utterly ridiculous reading of these passages and it is IMPOSSIBLE to apply these passages to an earthly king without deliberately, willfully perverting scripture!

Ezekiel Chapter 28 and Isaiah Chapter 12

Ezekiel 28:12-19  "Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more."

Isaiah  14:12-15  "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."

I said that it was impossible to misunderstand these passages without deliberately and willfully doing so.  Let me explain my statement.  Look back at Ezekiel 28:13:  "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God..."  If we stopped here, we could possibly apply this to an earthly king but upon further examination, the Word of God becomes clear that we are not referencing any earthly creature!  We read of the coverings, the tabrets and the pipes.  Verse 14 can NEVER apply to any earthly creature!  Ezekiel 28:14 "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire."

There were only 4 entities in the Garden of Eden:  God himself, Adam, Eve and 1 other:   the Serpent -- Satan!

In Isaiah we again see the reference, not to an earthly king but to a supernatural being:  Isaiah 14:12   "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!..."

There is only a record of ONE who has ever "fallen from heaven".  THAT, my friend is the same as we have seen in Revelation 12, Luke 10 and other passages.  That "one" is Satan, Lucifer, "the Devil"! 

I want to make a critical point here:  The NIV Bible commits open blasphemy by substituting the phrase "morning star" for "son of the morning", thus calling Lucifer the "morning star".  There is only ONE "morning star" and that star is JESUS!  Jesus himself declared he was the morning star!

Revelation 22:16 "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."

Read more about this deliberate mistranslation as recorded in several modern bible versions.

Isaiah records the reason for Satan's fall:  I WILL, I WILL, I WILL.  Five times in verses 13 and 14, Satan (Lucifer) said "I WILL".  Not only is it rebellion to choose your own will above God's will, but in Satan's case, he was vain, arrogant, and full of enough pride to believe he could be not only "like" God, but that he could be ABOVE God!   For this cause, God cast him down and 1/3 of the angels that stood with him.

I believe at this point we have firmly established that Satan and his angels were cast out of heaven into the earth and this, my dear one, happened at some point before man was created.

What are devils?  They are the fallen angels that were cast out of heaven!

Where are these angels now?  Let's see as we continue.

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